← Back to the rankingKatedralskolan Linköping
Linkoping, Sweden · est. 1627 · State
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Katedralskolan is the oldest upper secondary school in Linköping, founded in 1627; its motto is tradition and development. It is a municipal upper secondary school with four national university preparatory programmes (economics, humanities, natural science and social science), one vocational programme (business and service) and the international IB Diploma Programme, offered here since autumn 2001. The national programmes are taught in Swedish and the IB in English, including the preparatory year. A music profile can be chosen on any national programme. The school has long been known for international exchanges - with schools in Germany (for 50 years), France, Spain and Finland - takes part in Erasmus+ and holds a United Nations role play every year. Students of German can take the German language diploma DSD. According to the school, the average score of its IB graduates is around 33-34 against a world average of 31.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Swedish, English
Languages taught
German, French, Spanish
About the fees Tuition is free: the school states that the IB costs the individual student nothing and is funded by skolpeng from the student's home municipality and state grants. A travel card is given to students living further than 6 km from school; those for whom commuting is difficult can get a boarding allowance from their municipality.
Admissions The IB preparatory year (Pre-DP) is open to students who have completed grade 9 of Swedish compulsory school or its equivalent with good English and Mathematics; acceptance is based on the grade 9 leaving certificate and entrance tests in English and Mathematics held at the school in March; mainly those who rank the IB first are invited. Applications go through the student's municipal admissions system (in Östergötland gymnasiestudera.se); the school's own application form is only for applicants outside Sweden. Students who have studied abroad can apply directly for DP1 (the second year). Families arrange accommodation themselves. National programmes follow the general Swedish admission rules.
Stages and year groups Grades 10-12. Upper secondary school, three years (ages 16-19). National programmes in Swedish (gymnasieexamen): Ekonomiprogrammet, Humanistiska programmet (languages and culture tracks), Naturvetenskapsprogrammet, Samhällsvetenskapsprogrammet, Försäljnings- och serviceprogrammet; a music profile can be added to any of them. IB Diploma Programme: the Pre-DP preparatory year (IB1) of Swedish courses taught in English (Swedish or Swedish as a second language, English, history, social studies, natural science, mathematics), then the two-year Diploma focused on languages, science, social science or including film. DP subjects: literature in Swedish, English or the student's native language (self-taught); English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish B and Swedish ab initio; History, Economics, Psychology, Environmental Systems and Societies; Biology, Chemistry, Physics; mathematics at three levels; Film or an additional subject. Core: Theory of Knowledge, CAS, the Extended Essay; exams in May. Students with Swedish as their mother tongue receive a bilingual diploma. Separately the school administers the German DSD language diploma exam - an exam, not a programme.
Address Platensgatan 20, 581 81 Linköping
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmePASCH · takes part in the programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme. The IB track runs inside a Swedish upper-secondary school, alongside the Swedish national programmes. The school is part of the PASCH network.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →PASCHSchools: Partners for the Future, an initiative of the German foreign ministry
More than two thousand schools in about 120 countries. A school cannot apply for itself: participants are chosen by German agencies in agreement with the embassy. Very different schools sit under one mark - full German schools abroad, and ordinary national schools that simply teach German well.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to a German support programme. By itself the mark means neither a German curriculum nor the right to award a German certificate: of the two thousand PASCH schools, about seventeen hundred hold no such right. Look for a ZfA status next to it - that is the one that is about this. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →National programme
The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results IB Diploma: according to the school, its graduates' average score is around 33-34 against a world average of 31; the maximum is 45 and at least 24 is needed for the diploma. The school says failing the final exam is rare in Sweden; it can be retaken twice.
Where leavers go: Uppsala University · Lund University · Linköping University · University of Cambridge · University College London (UCL) · University of Amsterdam · University of Milan · University of Edinburgh
The school says its IB graduates study at universities in Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, Japan and the US; most continue their studies in Sweden or abroad after the diploma. The cities and universities named are examples from the school's FAQ.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Elevkåren (student union) · FN-rollspel (UN role-play) · Musikprofil (music profile, ensembles)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: certified teachers, IB teachers with IB training
The school says its teachers are certified and rely on solid knowledge and scientific methods, and that IB teachers are specially trained for the programme; every student has a personal mentor. Before the final exams the school holds a full mock examination.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
✓Access control
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school is locked to outsiders during the school day: visitors come by appointment, sign in with the caretaker and wear a badge. The student health team: the principal, a special education teacher, the school nurse, a counsellor, a psychologist and a careers adviser; special support and adjustments are provided after assessment.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data75 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data67 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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